Switching method for supporting different operating systems by application function and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12353889-B2
Application number	US-202118272572-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 29, 2021
Priority date	Nov 29, 2021
Publication date	Jul 8, 2025
Grant date	Jul 8, 2025

Abstract

Provided is a switching method for supporting different operating systems by an application function, including: establishing a one-to-one mapping relationship table between switching setting signals and unique switching setting codes, wherein the application function in the different operating systems corresponds to the different unique switching setting codes, and the unique switching setting codes are capable of uniquely identifying and activating the application function supported by the different operating systems; detecting the switching setting signal output by the operating system; and switching an operating system of a device to the operating system corresponding to the switching setting signal, wherein the device is configured with the application function and supports the different operating systems.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A switching method for supporting different operating systems by an application function, applicable to a device that is configured with the application function and supports the different operating systems, the method comprising:
establishing a one-to-one mapping relationship table between switching setting signals and unique switching setting codes, wherein the application function in the different operating systems corresponds to different unique switching setting codes, and the unique switching setting codes are capable of uniquely identifying and activating the application function supported by the different operating systems;
detecting a switching setting signal output by a current operating system of the device; and
switching the current operating system of the device to an operating system corresponding to the switching setting signal, wherein the device is configured with the application function and supports the different operating systems.

2. The switching method according to claim 1 , wherein each of the unique switching setting codes comprises a bus address or an identification code.

3. The switching method according to claim 2 , wherein the different operating systems comprise a first operating system and a second operating system; the application function in the first operating system and the second operating system corresponds to a first bus address and a second bus address, respectively; and
the switching method comprises:
receiving the switching setting signal;
determining whether the switching setting signal is a high-level signal or a low-level signal;
in a case that the switching setting signal is the high-level signal, setting the bus address of the application function in the device as the first bus address to activate the application function in the first operating system; and
in a case where the switching setting signal is the low-level signal, setting the bus address of the application function in the device as the second bus address to activate the application function in the second operating system.

4. The switching method according to claim 3 , wherein the switching setting signal is received in a case that the device is powered on; and
the switching method further comprises: initializing the device when the device is powered on.

5. The switching method according to claim 3 , wherein receiving the switching setting signal comprises:
receiving the switching setting signal once at a set time interval, wherein the switching setting signal is received N times in total;
determining whether N/2 or more of the switching setting signals are the same;
in a case that N/2 or more of the switching setting signals are the same, determining the N/2 or more of the switching setting signals as the switching setting signal as received; and in a case that less than N/2 of the switching setting signals are the same, determining that no switching setting signal is received,
wherein N≥6, and N is an integer.

6. The switching method according to claim 5 , further comprising: in a case of determining that no switching setting signal is received, determining a default operating system of the device;
in a case that the default operating system of the device is the first operating system, setting the bus address of the application function in the device as the first bus address to activate the application function in the first operating system; and
in a case where the default operating system of the device is the second operating system, setting the bus address of the application function in the device as the second bus address to activate the application function in the second operating system.

7. The switching method according to claim 2 , wherein the different operating systems comprise a first operating system and a second operating system; the application function in the first operating system and the second operating system corresponds to a first bus address and a second bus address, respectively; and
the switching method comprises:
receiving the switching setting signal;
determining whether the switching setting signal is a level pulse rising edge signal or a level pulse falling edge signal;
in a case that the switching setting signal is a level pulse rising edge signal, setting a bus address of the application function in the device as the first bus address to activate the application function in the first operating system; and
in a case that the switching setting signal is a level pulse falling edge signal, setting the bus address of the application function in the device as the second bus address to activate the application function in the second operating system.

8. The switching method according to claim 2 , wherein the different operating systems comprise a first operating system and a second operating system; the application function in the first operating system and the second operating system corresponds to a first identification code and a second identification code, respectively; and
the switching method comprises:
receiving the switching setting signal;
determining whether the switching setting signal is a high-level signal or a low-level signal;
in a case that the switching setting signal is the high-level signal, activating the application function of the first identification code; and
in a case that the switching setting signal is the low-level signal, activating the application function of the second identification code.

9. The switching method according to claim 3 , wherein the first operating system comprises a Windows system; and the second operating system comprises a Google system.

10. The switching method according to claim 3 , wherein the application function comprises a touch function.

11. The switching method according to claim 2 , wherein the quantity of the different operating systems is three or more, and the application function in the different operating systems corresponds to different bus addresses, respectively; the switching setting signal is set as three or more potential signals with different magnitudes, and the potential signals with different magnitudes correspond to the bus addresses of the application function in the different operating systems one by one respectively; and
the switching method comprises:
receiving the switching setting signal;
determining which of the potential signals the switching setting signal is; and
setting, based on a determination result, the bus address of the application function in the device to a bus address corresponding to the potential signal in the mapping relationship table, so as to activate the application function in an operating system corresponding to the bus address.

12. The switching method according to claim 2 , wherein the bus addresses comprise an I2C bus address.

13. The switching method according to claim 3 , wherein the first bus address is 0x10; and the second bus address is 0x40.

14. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program thereon, wherein the program, when executed, implements:
establishing a one-to-one mapping relationship table between switching setting signals and unique switching setting codes, wherein an application function in different operating systems corresponds to different unique switching setting codes, and the unique switching setting codes are capable of uniquely identifying and activating the application function supported by the different operating systems;
detecting a switching setting signal output by a current operating system of a device, wherein the device is configured with the application function and supports the different operating systems; an

Assignees

• Chongqing Boe Optoelectronics Tech Co Ltd
• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Dang Kangpeng
• Zuo Cheng
• Chen Hong
• Tang Yuansheng
• Xu Hebing
• Wang Bo
• Pu Xingyu
• Guo Xiong
• Luo Zhongli
• Gao Ming
• Li Kuan
• Zhang Dayu

Classifications

• G06F13/38

  Information transfer, e.g. on bus (G06F13/14 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F9/441 Primary

  Multiboot arrangements, i.e. selecting an operating system to be loaded · CPC title